Re: gawk always prints 0 for a hexadecimal number printed using printf %d

[John Cowan]

Mahendra Ladhe scripsit:
> Thanks John for your clarification.
> Is it possible to consider this as an enhancement request,
> if it fits the overall philosophy and goals of awk?

It's a bad idea, since you can easily interpret 0xnnnn strings yourself.
Consider what would happen if "07028" (a U.S. postal code) were
interpreted as an octal value!

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